Custom fire apparatus manufacturer: pumpers, aerials, rescue and tankers
Pierce Manufacturing builds custom fire apparatus in Appleton, WI, and its stack goes well beyond a typical plant: Azure event infrastructure (Event Grid, Event Hubs, Service Bus, Data Explorer), Rust, C++ and Embedded Linux point to connected-vehicle and IIoT telemetry work. Hiring is accelerating and skews toward manufacturing and intern/junior roles, matching a lean push around material flow, value streams and parts shortages.
Notable leadership hires: Team Lead, Fabrication Lead
Pierce Manufacturing, an Oshkosh Corporation business founded in 1913, designs and builds custom fire and emergency apparatus. Its product line covers custom and commercial pumpers, aerial ladders, rescue trucks, wildland trucks and tankers sold to fire departments across North America. The company employs 1,001–5,000 people and is headquartered in Appleton, Wisconsin, with hiring concentrated in the United States. Engineering uses simulation tools such as ADAMS, MATLAB and AMESim, and plant maintenance runs on SAP PM and Maximo.
Pierce uses Azure services (Functions, Event Hubs, Service Bus, Cosmos DB, Data Explorer), C#/.NET Core, C++, Rust, Embedded Linux, Terraform, Docker, SAP PM, Maximo, Power BI and Tableau, plus ADAMS, MATLAB and AMESim.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating in the United States, led by manufacturing and engineering, with a large share of intern and junior roles plus team and fabrication lead positions.
Pierce Manufacturing is headquartered in Appleton, Wisconsin, and operates as part of Oshkosh Corporation.
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